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Elliptic bindings for dynamically convex Reeb flows on the real projective three-space

Symplectic Geometry 2016-04-12 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The first result of this paper is that every contact form on RP3\mathbb{R} P^3 sufficiently CC^\infty-close to a dynamically convex contact form admits an elliptic-parabolic closed Reeb orbit which is 22-unknotted, has self-linking number 1/2-1/2 and transverse rotation number in (1/2,1](1/2,1]. Our second result implies that any pp-unknotted periodic orbit with self-linking number 1/p-1/p of a dynamically convex Reeb flow on a lens space of order pp is the binding of a rational open book decomposition, whose pages are global surfaces of section. As an application we show that in the planar circular restricted three-body problem for energies below the first Lagrange value and large mass ratio, there is a special link consisting of two periodic trajectories for the massless satellite near the smaller primary -- lunar problem -- with the same contact-topological and dynamical properties of the orbits found by Conley in~\cite{conley} for large negative energies. Both periodic trajectories bind rational open book decompositions with disk-like pages which are global surfaces of section. In particular, one of the components is an elliptic-parabolic periodic orbit.

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@article{arxiv.1505.02713,
  title  = {Elliptic bindings for dynamically convex Reeb flows on the real projective three-space},
  author = {Umberto L. Hryniewicz and Pedro A. S. Salomão},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02713},
  year   = {2016}
}

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58 pages, to appear in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

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